Works of the Rev. Robert Hall ...: With a Brief Memoir and a Sketch of His Literary Character, Volume 2Holdsworth and Ball, 1831 |
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... happiness of a mind must be the prerogative of something superior to itself ; nor is there any greater superiority conceivable than that of being the source of enjoyment , the bestower of happiness on another . But while it is superior ...
... happiness of a mind must be the prerogative of something superior to itself ; nor is there any greater superiority conceivable than that of being the source of enjoyment , the bestower of happiness on another . But while it is superior ...
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... happiness by being , along with the church , reduced under one Head , the Lord Jesus Christ . Their confirmation , in a state of obedience and felicity , is owing ( there is every reason to con- clude ) to their union with him , and ...
... happiness by being , along with the church , reduced under one Head , the Lord Jesus Christ . Their confirmation , in a state of obedience and felicity , is owing ( there is every reason to con- clude ) to their union with him , and ...
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... happiness of heaven , and in this the holy angels are habitually employed . To contemplate the perfections , to celebrate the praises of the Great Eternal ; to bow before him in lowly prostrations , and to render him the honour due unto ...
... happiness of heaven , and in this the holy angels are habitually employed . To contemplate the perfections , to celebrate the praises of the Great Eternal ; to bow before him in lowly prostrations , and to render him the honour due unto ...
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... happiness of our first parents , under the disguise of a serpent , he tempted the woman to violate the divine prohibition , by eating the forbidden fruit , whence we derived a corrupt and mortal nature ; that the same evil spirit who is ...
... happiness of our first parents , under the disguise of a serpent , he tempted the woman to violate the divine prohibition , by eating the forbidden fruit , whence we derived a corrupt and mortal nature ; that the same evil spirit who is ...
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... he never so wisely . You were made to fancy that true religion was melancholy , that tenderness of conscience was needless scrupulosity , and that happiness was only to be found in the pleasures and 104 CLAIMS OF THE FLESH .
... he never so wisely . You were made to fancy that true religion was melancholy , that tenderness of conscience was needless scrupulosity , and that happiness was only to be found in the pleasures and 104 CLAIMS OF THE FLESH .
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Page 29 - Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.
Page 136 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 173 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive : for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed ; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 362 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled...
Page 509 - But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 309 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their fulness?
Page 203 - And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 230 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 302 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, 'whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Page 280 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...